The International Film Festival of India (IFFI Goa 2015) begins from 20th Nov, 2015 and it will be curtains down on the festival on 30th Nov, 2015. This year the bouquet of International competition section of IFFI Goa 2015 seems to be very attractive and appealing. The fest is all set to screen almost 15 films helmed by world – class filmmakers.
And the films to be screened in the competition section are Kaushik Ganguly’s Cinemawala and Debesh Chatterjee’s Natoker Moto are the 2 Indian Films selected in this section. Besides the International Competition section at IFFI brings forth the cinematic vibrancy of the world cinema. The section is so popular amongst the world film fraternity that this year it has attracted films and filmmakers even from unconventional film regions like Argentina, Venezuela, Serbia, Bolivia, Jordan among others. Traversing through various languages and countries, the films in this section are nothing short of a masterpiece envisioned by the world – class filmmakers.
Appreciating films and the art of film making by talented filmmakers from the world, the International Competition section will offer a unique opportunity to showcase the most spectacular films to film enthusiasts and film makers from India and across the world.
A brief insight into some of the exceptional films, which will be competing for the prestigious awards this year at IFFI Goa 2015 include:-
1. 3000 Nights (Mai Masri) from Palestine, France, Jordan, Lebanon / 2015 / Arabic, Hebrew / 103 minutes / colour. It’s about Layal, a young newlywed Palestinian school teacher who is arrested after being falsely accused and sentenced to & years of prison. She is transferred to a high security Israeli women’s prison where she encounters a terrifying world in which Palestinian political prisoners are incarcerated with Israeli criminal inmates.
2. Embrace Of The Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Colombia / Venezuela / Argentina / 2015 / Spanish / Portuguese / German / Catalan / Latin / 122 minutes / colour. : It is an epic story of the 1st contact, encounter, approach, betrayal and eventually, life – transcending friendship, between Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman, last survivor of his people & above all 2 scientists.
3. Enclave (Goran Radovanovic) Serbia / Germany / 2015 / Serbian / 92 minutes / colour. The movie traces the story of Nenad, a 10 year old Christian boy from a Serbian enclave who crosses enemy lines in order to ensure a proper community burial for his late grandfather.
4. Filosofi Kopi (Angga Dwimas Sasongko) Indonesia / 2015 / Indonesian / 117 minutes / colour. The movie is a tale about soul – searching and making peace with the past through coffee. Ben and Jody are 2 friends and owners of ‘Filosofi Kopi’, a sophisticated coffee shop known for serving the best coffee in the country.
5. Journey To The Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Japan, France / 2015 / Japanese/ 128 minutes / colour. The movie is a tale about Mizuki’s husband Yusuke drowned at sea 3 years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. Instead, Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.
6. Kapo In Jerusalem (Uri Barbash) Israel / 2015 / Hebrew / 98 minutes / colour. It is the tale of a pair of Auschwitz survivors who arrive in Jerusalem. Bruno is a doctor and Sarah a pianist. They are trying to rehabilitate their lives and love in a city under siege during the War of Independence.
7. Labyrinth Of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli) Germany / 2014 / German / 121 minutes / colour. The movie is a tale of the economic miracle which is changing the life of Germans in post war Germany. Most of them are sick of the war and prefer to push their guilt to the back of their mind. When a journalist identifies a teacher in the playground as a former guard from Auschwitz.
8. Eisenstein In Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway) Netherlands / Mexico / 2015 / English, Spanish / 105 minutes / colour. The movie unfolds in 1931, at the height of the artistic powers. Soviet filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein travels to Mexico to shoot a new film to be titled Que Viva Mexico. Freshly rejected by Hollywood and under increasing pressure to return to Stalinist Russia, Eisenstein arrives at the city of Guanajuato.
9. The Man Who Became A Horse (Amir – Hossein Saghafi) Iran / 2015 / Farsi / 110 minutes / colour. A father and his daughter live together. The mother has passed away. There is just one white horse left for their daughter. The father prevents his daughter from leaving him though she is married. The father is even planning to kill his son – in – law but the girl leaves him and he goes crazy.
10. The Measure Of A Man) (La Loi Du Marche – Stephane Brize) France / 2015 / French / 93 minutes / colour. It is the tale of Thierry who at the age of 51 and after 20 months of unemployment starts a new job that soon brings him face to face with a moral dilemma. How much is he willing to accept to keep his job?
11. Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven) Turkey / 2015 / Turkish / 97 minutes / colour. The movie unfolds in the beginning of the summer. In a village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her 4 sisters come home from school, innocently playing with boys. The supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.
12. Rams (Grimur Hakonarson) Iceland / 2015 / Icelandic / 93 minutes / Colour. The movie unfolds in a secluded valley in Iceland, Gummi & Kiddi live side by side, tending to their sheep. Their ancestral sheep – stock is considered one of the country’s best and the 2 brothers are repeatedly awarded for their prized rams that carry an ancient lineage.
13. Sealed Cargo (Julia Vargas) Bolivia, Mexico, Venezuela, France 2015 / Spanish / 107 minutes / colour. The movie opens when somewhere in the Andes half buried containers of suspicious minerals are found. The villagers demand their police to get rid of them. The government decides to send them to the border by any means, and the only available train is a steam locomotive whose anarchist driver, Augustin, is retired
14. Natoker Moto (Debesh Chatterjee) India / 2015 / 121 minutes / colour. It is the story of a journey of a female theatre artist and her multi -dimensional conflicting experience as a girl, as a woman and even as an artist. It is more so when especially a woman is of maverick capability and of excellence beyond her time.
15. Cinemawala (Kaushik Ganguly) India / 2015 / colour). Pranabendu Das is a retired film exhibitor from a small town in West Bengal. He owns a movie theatre ‘Kamalini’ named after his separated wife. This old man never retired on his own wish. He was forced to take up this decision.
The 46th edition of International Film Festival of India – IFFI Goa 2015 will be held from 20th Nov, 2015 to 30th Nov, 2015 in Goa where film luminaries across the world will witness a mélange of National as well as international cinema.
